Francois de Crequy

Francois de Crequy (1625-3 February 1687) was a Marshal of France under King Louis XIV of France.

Biography
Francois de Crequy was born to an aristocratic and military family, and he served in the French Army during the Thirty Years' War; he had risen to Lieutenant-General before he was thirty. During the second Fronde, he earned King Louis XIV of France's respect, and he served on the Rhine during the War of Devolution; his capture of Lille in 1668 led to him being made a Marshal of France. In 1670, he conquered Lorraine from the Holy Roman Empire. After the death of the Vicomte de Turenne (who had been resented by Crequy) and the retirement of Louis, Grand Conde, he became the most important general of the French army, but his loss to the Germans at Konzer Brucke on 11 August 1675 and his capture of Trier punished his overconfidence. In 1683, he bombarded Luxembourg during the War of the Reunions. He died in 1687.